Senior AI Activation & Commercial Analytics Lead

MSD; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Long-term incentive

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ invites applicants for Associate Director, AI Activation & Commercial Analytics.

You will lead analytics projects addressing brand and marketing questions, apply ML and AI to optimize HCP targeting, segmentation, and promotional impact, and translate findings into actionable guidance for senior leaders. You will partner with brand, ME, and data teams, ensure data privacy and governance, and help scale AI initiatives across the DHH portfolio, with a hybrid work

Qualifications

• 5+ years in pharma analytics or healthcare analytics
• Strong ML/statistics for commercial questions like targeting and segmentation
• Experience with pharmaceutical commercial data sources and governance

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced analytics and data science projects addressing brand and marketing questions
• Drive launch readiness for new products and indications through analytics
• Develop and apply ML and statistical models using pharma commercial data
• Translate outputs into decision-ready insights for leadership
• Partner with brand/ME/sales planning to define success metrics
• Identify AI opportunities grounded in business needs and support pilots
• Ensure data privacy, governance, and AI literacy across teams

Skills

Python

SQL

R

ML

Data science

Pharma data

Leadership

Project management

Education

Master's or PhD in Data Science / Statistics / CS

Tools

Databricks

Dataiku

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ invites applicants for Associate Director, AI Activation & Commercial Analytics.

You will lead analytics projects addressing brand and marketing questions, apply ML and AI to optimize HCP targeting, segmentation, and promotional impact, and translate findings into actionable guidance for senior leaders. You will partner with brand, ME, and data teams, ensure data privacy and governance, and help scale AI initiatives across the DHH portfolio, with a hybrid work